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Enlightenment Movement 英国启蒙运动时期的作家;;John Bunyan(1628-1688);;;;Representative works;;人生 —— 朝圣者们的艰难历程。 人 —— 天路的朝圣者。 基督寻求救赎的朝圣历程 —— 人类摆脱世间烦恼和焦虑，追求美好永恒未来的过程。;(2)It’s purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils.;;The father of English criticism;桂冠诗人;;;风俗喜剧 Comedy of manners;Daniel Defoe(1660-1731);;Robinson Crusoe;Crusoe’s reading Bible;;;Friday;Jonathan Swift(1667-1745);An Irish writer;Famous sayings; Jonathan Swift (1667—1745）;Swift’s Works;;Joseph Addison(1672-1719) and Richard Steele(1672-1729);;The main reason for pairing up these two names is their joint work in The Tatler and The Spectator. The Tatler was started by Steele in 1709 and came out three times a week and sold a penny a copy. The purpose of the paper was to provide moral, philosophical and social etiquette instructions as well as entertainment for the middle-class readers. Its wider range of subjects won a wide reading public. Steele wrote the greater number of the paper, but Addison gave great help. Steele’s style as found in his work here was rather informal, sometimes even careless, but for the very reason intimate and engaging(引人入胜的). The paper stopped in January 1711. ;约翰·盖伊Gay, John（1685～1732）英国诗人兼剧作家。;;Alexander Pope(1688-1744);Alexander Pope (1688-1744);; Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Life experiences and their possible influence on his personality * born into a merchant family of Catholicism -- prejudiced; * weak and crippled from childhood -- cranky;;II. Works: 3 groups * didactic philosophical poems: “Essay on Criticism”,优秀诗句的定义：what ofth was thought,but ne’er so well exoressed.内容是人们所熟悉的，但文字却是空前绝后的。 “Moral Essays”(1731- 35), “An Essay on Man” (1734); * social satires: “The Rape of the Lock” (1714),夺发记，1st mock epic “The Dunciad”; 群愚史诗 * translation of Iliad (1720) Odyssey (1726).; III. Poetic features * Brilliant wit, a sharp critical sense, a